health reform

Send a Letter to Your Local Newspaper

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One of the most effective ways to influence your elected representatives is to have your point of view published in the local newspaper.

The staffs of your elected representatives read all of the published letters.  They know each letter published speaks for many other people who have a similar point of view.

So take a moment and prepare a letter that describes your support for health reform. 

PA House passes health reform bills

Submitted by pahealth on July 1, 2009 - 2:15pm
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Two important bills - one to expand subsidized health insurance, the other to protect small businesses against premium spikes - cleared the Pennsylvania House June 29. Both face an uphill struggle in the Senate, which has shown little interest to date in expanding insurance coverage or regulating insurance companies.

The Health Care Status Quo

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application/pdf iconPennsylvania Access to Health Care.pdf

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides a summary of key indicators in our health care crisis. HHS provides this information in concise, 2-page reports, one for each state.

Topics include: 

-  average premium costs

-  impact of health care on household budgets

-  the hidden cost of the uninsured to businesses and families that have insurance

-  rate of coverage by small employers

-  degree of competition within the health insurance industry

Video: State Leaders Support Health Access

Submitted by pahealth on June 9, 2009 - 2:37pm
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Leaders of prominent Pennsylvania organizations stood together June 2nd at the Capitol in support of pending legislation to improve access to health care in the state. Watch video clips from that event.

State leaders stand together in support of health access

Submitted by pahealth on June 4, 2009 - 4:11pm
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Leaders of prominent Pennsylvania organizations stood together June 2nd at the Capitol in support of pending legislation to improve access to health care in the state.

Bishop Robert Driesen of the Upper Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Bishop Jane Allen Middleton of the Central PA Conference of the United Methodist Church, Fran Viglietta of the PA Catholic Conference, and Jacqueline Rucker of Christian Churches United represented religious communities.

PHAN urges Congress to move on health reform

Submitted by pahealth on April 13, 2009 - 2:31pm
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The Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN), joined by 37 other organizations, is urging Congress forward on health reform.

In letters sent April 7 to all 21 members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delgation, PHAN conveyed its support for President Obama’s plan “to allocate $634 billion over ten years for health system reform”.

Congress moving ahead with health reform

Submitted by pahealth on April 13, 2009 - 1:17pm
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Voting along party lines, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate have approved blueprints for next year’s federal budget. By and large, these blueprints follow the $3.5 trillion budget proposal offered by President Obama in February.

Each plan includes general provisions to reform our health care system.

Will medical industry support health reform?

Submitted by pahealth on March 20, 2009 - 11:56am
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Speaking March 9 at PHAN's "Getting Everyone Covered" conference in Harrisburg, representatives of the insurance industry, the hospitals, and business/commerce each said in turn that the health care system must be reformed.  Our current system is much too expensive and is unsustainable, they said.

But the discussion was very general and the commitments rather vague.  Are the big players in the healthcare industry so committed to reform that they are prepared to give up some of the advantages they enjoy under the current arrangement?  It's too soon to say.

U.S. Rep. Schwartz hopeful about health system reform

Submitted by pahealth on February 23, 2009 - 10:01pm
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Allyson Schwartz, the 3-term member of Congress who represents a bit of Philadelphia and a big junk of Montgomery County, says that 2009 may be the year for fundamental reform of our national health system.

Comprehensive health reform #1 domestic priority

Submitted by pahealth on December 24, 2008 - 4:59pm
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A diverse assortment of statewide associations, service providers, and labor unions has come together to urge members of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation "to make comprehensive health reform (the) top domestic priorioty and the one you ask your leaders to tackle first in the next Congress."

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